Twelve students belonging to the economically-weaker section at Rohini’s Vidya Bharati School have decided to skip classes till the school provides them with winter uniforms, mandatory under the Right to Education Act.

The children decided against rejoining classes after the Diwali break since the school turned away students without winter uniforms last year after failing to provide it to them.

In an interview to state broadcaster PTV along with her father and mother in the United Kingdom, she invited both the Prime Minister of Pakistan and India yet again to attend the award ceremony of Nobel Peace Prize to be held in December.

PESHAWAR: The abysmal state of education in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is reflected in the fact that a mere 5% of the budget is spent on the sector’s development projects, while an astonishing 95% goes into staff salaries.

Released at a local hotel on Thursday, a study by the Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) states the amount spent on development was nowhere near enough for effective primary and secondary education.

New Delhi: The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry on Wednesday launched the All-India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2014-15, an annual, web-based, pan-India exercise on the status of higher education in the country.

Government, zilla parishad and government-aided schools that have not filled up vacancies for teachers will face strict action from the state education department. Education officers of the respective districts may also face suspension if teachers complain that they have not been allowed to join work despite receiving appointment letters.

Countries around the world should cut their defence budgets and invest in education if child labour is to be eradicated, said Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi. The 60-year-old was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this month with Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan for their struggle against the oppression of children.

"The world has been able to produce more guns and weapons and bullets, than the books and toys which are needed for children," Satyarthi told a news conference late on Monday.

Tamil Nadu Government has issued anotification bringing all schools affiliated to boards other than state boards under the control of its Director of School Education for implementation of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009.
This was stated in a submission by Government Pleader Krishna Kumar before a bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sathyanarayanan of Madras High Court during the hearing of a PIL.

JAIPUR: Rajasthan has the third highest percentage of out of school students in the age group of 6-13 years in the country. State has recorded 6.01 lakh out of school students from a total of 1.19 crore students in this age group in the academic session 2013-14, says the latest survey conducted by Indian Market Research Bureau for the HRD ministry titled Out of School (OoS).

The state education department has directed schools across the state not to give non-teaching work to vocational trainers. During a checking by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) officials, it was found that vocational trainers are given non-teaching assignments by some school administrations.

Fifteen years on, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has outlived its utility. In most states today, the programme is doing more harm than good to the education system. I make this strong statement responsibly as someone who has helped conceptualise and implement the SSA for many years and studied the SSA implementation in several states over the past five years.